Canadian Urban Library Council trying to get a better deal on e-content

ottdmk · 01-22-2019, 01:31 PM

So the Canadian Urban Library Council is trying to start up a grassroots lobbying effort to get a better deal on e-content from the Big Five multinationals.

Lots of decent reading on the effort:

The CBC article that alerted me to this.

The Ottawa Public Library's page telling its users about the new initiative.

The new EContentForLibraries page set up by the Canadian Urban Library Council

What I find most interesting is the rate of growth of ebooks and digital audiobooks. They claim that usage went up 82% at six of the country's largest libraries over the last three years.

Victoria · 03-05-2019, 11:01 AM

I missed this - thank you for posting. Great series of articles!

01-22-2019, 01:31 PM	#1
ottdmk Wizard Posts: 1,196 Karma: 3765734 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Libra 2, Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus, Lenovo Tab M8 HD	Canadian Urban Library Council trying to get a better deal on e-content So the Canadian Urban Library Council is trying to start up a grassroots lobbying effort to get a better deal on e-content from the Big Five multinationals. Lots of decent reading on the effort: The CBC article that alerted me to this. The Ottawa Public Library's page telling its users about the new initiative. The new EContentForLibraries page set up by the Canadian Urban Library Council What I find most interesting is the rate of growth of ebooks and digital audiobooks. They claim that usage went up 82% at six of the country's largest libraries over the last three years.

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Victoria Wizard Posts: 1,013 Karma: 19767610 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia Canada Device: ipad, Kindle PW, Kobo Clara; iphone 7	I missed this - thank you for posting. Great series of articles!